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Elton John’s classic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road turned 40 last October and recently received a massive reissue with alternate versions, live cuts, and exclusive new covers like Miguel and Wale’s take on “Bennie And The Jets.” Today we’re giving away the Super Deluxe Edition of the release and a vinyl test pressing of the reissue signed by Sir Elton himself. The box set includes the following:

The remastered album

A disc of new cover version of its songs by artists including Ed Sheeran, Miguel, and Fall Out Boy

B-sides and bonus tracks

The complete “Live At Hammersmith” CD

DVD of Bryan Forbes’ 1973 film Elton John And Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye To Norma Jean and Other Things

100-page illustrated hardback book packed with rare photos, memorabilia and a new essay containing interviews with Elton John and Bernie Taupin)

Revisiting 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' for its 40th anniversary deluxe re-release was 'very beautiful,' Elton John says. In it, he hears a band 'full of confidence, full of joy, full of positivity.'

By Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic

April 9, 2014, 5:30 a.m.

Last fall marked the 40th anniversary of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," Elton John's multiplatinum double album that propelled the singer to superstar status. Featuring some of his most enduring hits, including "Bennie and the Jets," "Candle in the Wind" and the title track, the album is considered by many to be a cornerstone album of the 1970s.

The album was one of the most acclaimed of a particularly inventive period in pop music. Building on broad, conceptual ideas forged by the Beatles, Kinks and Beach Boys in crafting thematically linked songs to be experienced in single sittings on long playing albums, John and others delivered big narratives featuring multi-part suites, album-side compositions and recurring musical motifs.

In the same three-year period in which John dropped "Road," albums including the Who's "Quadrophenia," Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" and "Tales From Topographic Oceans" by Yes all brought a range of furrow-browed concepts to the market.

John and lyricist Bernie Taupin's creation was one of the biggest of the bunch, even if it presented work less ridiculously imagined than deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizards and artsy spacemen with shocking red mullets. The album's front cover, created by British illustrator Ian Beck, opened into a glorious triple-gatefold sleeve dense with art and information, suggesting a children's book.

The just-released deluxe anniversary reissue may be a little late (the original came out in October 1973), but what's a few months in the life of an album that addresses the passage of time, nostalgia and loss?

Featuring a remastered version of the original album, the five-disc set also offers the requisite B-sides, a demo of "Grey Seal," a series of covers by artists including Miguel and Ed Sheeran. Two additional discs present a 1973 concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon, and a DVD contains the documentary "Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye to Norma Jean and Other Things."

Such repackaging of nostalgia, which last occurred with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" on its 30th anniversary, is particularly notable given the album's themes. Forty years on, John and his fans have endured more funerals for friends than necessary, and the album's biggest hit, "Candle in the Wind," became intertwined with the wake of Princess Diana after her death in 1997. Its fans have also had to wade through many deluxe and/or remastered versions.

In a recent phone conversation, John, who is playing the Colosseum at Caesars Palace throughout April, recalled memories of working on "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."

It's a little odd to reminisce about a record itself so infused with a feeling of nostalgia.

Yes. I'm not a nostalgic artist by trait. I don't listen to my old stuff at all. But this had been planned for such a long time I had to go back and listen to the record all over again, and figure out what I'm talking about. And it was wonderful to revisit an era that was so magical, so innocent, so exciting, and it brought back lots of really wonderful, positive memories.

Was your tour stop at the Hollywood Bowl in 1973 one of those great memories?

Yes, and that really launched us, and it led to me playing Dodger Stadium [in 1975]. We were big, and then we got really big. It led to "Captain Fantastic" coming in at No. 1, and launched us into the stratosphere. I had the privilege of having a wonderful band and lyric writer and a wonderful producer. I can't say enough how it was a team effort. And I'm very proud of that, and very emotional about it. I still have two of the boys in the band with me, and it's so great that they're still with me.

You and the band were originally supposed to record it in Kingston, Jamaica, right?

We did go to Kingston. We went to Byron Lee's studio. The Stones had just done "Goats Head Soup" and Cat Stevens had done "Foreigner." We'd done two albums at the Chateau in France. "Let's go somewhere else." And it just didn't work out. The studio was on strike so we had to drive through picket lines to get in — it was a record factory as well — and the equipment, if it broke down we couldn't get it back for a couple of days. We always had budgets to work with, so we thought we had to regroup and go back to the Chateau. Lucky enough it was empty, because otherwise we're going to spend our budget before we even start recording.

We decamped from Kingston, went straight to Paris and made up for lost time. And boy did we. We wrote and wrote and wrote. In the situation in which we were writing, we'd always stay in different bedrooms. I would get up in the morning, Bernie would be typing away at a typewriter. He would give me a lyric. I would have my breakfast. I'd go to the electric piano. I'd start writing the song. [Bassist] Dee [Murray], [drummer] Nigel [Olsson] and [guitarist] Davey [Johnstone] would come down for breakfast and join in. We'd learn the song after breakfast and go over and record it. It was really, really a wonderful way to write and record. We did four tracks a day, probably.

Four tracks a day?

Yeah. It was written and recorded in 17 days. We put pedal to the metal, but at that time we had so much momentum going for us as a band. We'd made two band albums — "Honky Chateau" and "Don't Shoot Me …" — and I think we turned into a new direction when Davey joined us. We had pop hits with "Rocket Man," "Daniel" and "Crocodile Rock," and this album was a mixture of pop and what I loved to do — Southern music, Americana, drama. It was just a mixture of everything. Happenstance and momentum made us make this record. We were going toward the top, and this was the record that pushed us even further.

Recording with that kind of confidence has to be liberating.

It was so liberating. We didn't have any doubts in our abilities. We were full of confidence, full of joy, full of positivity. It was pre-drugs and drink for me. We had two fifth members of the band. We had Bernie and we had Gus Dudgeon producing. We had a team that was so together. The boys knew what to sing on the backing tracks, and apart from "This Song Has No Title," where I did everything — they would do the backing vocals — I would go to bed and I would get up the next morning and hear what they'd done. We all knew what to sing, what to play. I didn't tell them what to play. I never did that with my band. They contributed equally musically. It was a genuine band.

Was it difficult at all to go back and critique your work from nearly 40 years ago?

It wasn't difficult. It was very beautiful, actually. It made me realize how good my band was — how good we all were — and it brought tears to my eyes because the production from Gus and the sound of the record and just the musicianship made me realize that, yeah, we were doing something really great back then. I felt a lot of gratitude for my life, and the people in my life — my band, my producer, my lyric writer. It made me feel as if I'd accomplished something really good. And as you said, I don't really listen to many old things, but I had to because I have to do interviews about it, so I better know what I'm talking about.

What were your thoughts after listening to it with fresh ears?

There are things that I'm so blown away by. Just drum sounds, and piano sounds, the little things. It's over 40 years old and the sound of the record is phenomenal. That's what I loved. The only thing that bothered me was my voice, because it sounds so high. And when people review [my] show they say, "Well, he doesn't have his falsetto." And I've said it time after time: I had an operation in the 1980s in Australia which lowered the timbre of my voice. And I so much prefer my voice now.

It's time to dig yet again into the Elton John archives. Ten years have passed since the release of the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition."

Happily, the four-CD, one-DVD set to commemorate the album's 40th anniversary is more than mere record label recycling. Included are a CD of "GBYBR" songs covered by contemporary artists, two discs of a 1973 concert with John and his band in top form, a handsome 100-page hardcover book and a DVD of a long out-of-print 1973 documentary by the British filmmaker Bryan Forbes.

The artists performing the covers are younger than the original album, a testament to its durability. Best is English singer Ed Sheeran, who transforms "Candle In the Wind" into strummy folk, and Irish musician Imelda May, who applies rockabilly zeal to "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'n Roll)." Alas, Fall Out Boy reduce "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" into a pep rally, and an R&B/rap remake of "Bennie and the Jets" by Grammy winner Miguel and Wale never takes off.

John's original album has been remastered yet again and sounds better than ever. The loud-to-soft contrasts are remarkable for a pop record, rewarding owners of quality headphones or loudspeakers. Dee Murray's underrated bass work, Nigel Olsson's angelic high harmonies and Davey Johnstone's seven guitar parts on "Saturday Night" can be appreciated as never before.

Like the dynamic range, the range of material remains impressive. A musical sponge from childhood, John was at his prolific peak when the two-disc LP, 17-song set was written and recorded in a span of just two weeks. Bernie Taupin's cinematic lyrics become Technicolor tunes, and "GBYBR" is an unsurpassed distillation of rock's golden era spanning both sides of the Atlantic. John draws on the Beatles and the Stones, the Beach Boys and the Band, Bob Marley, "Soul Train," Jerry Lee Lewis and Liberace, and makes it all his own. It helps that he's in the best voice of his career.

The lyrics are surprisingly dark, given the sunny melodies, and by the end of what used to be Side 3 we have a dead bootlegger, a dead lesbian and a dead Marilyn Monroe. The album is a funeral for one friend after another, and much more. It's electric music, solid walls of sound, cocky, campy, lovely, naughty, silly and, 40 years later, still fun. Comic book characters never grow old. Can't wait for the "50th Anniversary Super Duper Deluxe Edition."

Say hello again to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the album that put Elton John on a fast track to superstardom.

The expanded reissue, available in multiple formats, arrives March 25, on John's 67th birthday. The singer/pianist was 26 when the pivotal double album was released in 1973.

With its sterling songwriting, radiant showmanship and sparkling examples of rock, R&B, gospel and balladry, Goodbye encapsulated the powers that made John a '70s demigod. The album spent eight weeks at No. 1 and sold more than 7 million copies, 31 million worldwide.

"We were a band reaching our zenith at that point," John says. "Things were escalating, and the momentum was exciting. This is before I started drugs and drinking. This was pure Elton."

He considers Goodbye, which spawned such classics as Bennie and the Jets and Candle in the Wind, among his finest works, along with 1975's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, 1976's Blue Moves and last year's The Diving Board.

Goodbye, the eighth studio album John and lyricist Bernie Taupin released in three years, jelled during a prolific and fertile phase, but had a rough start.

"We thought, 'Let's try something different,' so we went to Jamaica to record at the same studio (where) the Rolling Stones did Goats Head Soup and Cat Stevens did Foreigner," John recalls. "It always worked before with us going away. But it just didn't work out. The studio went on strike. The equipment wasn't up to scratch. We had a hasty meeting and decided to get out."

The band left Kingston for the studio at 18th-century Chateau d'Herouville near Paris, where John had recorded earlier. Goodbye was wrapped up in 17 days.

"We made up for lost time," John says. "At breakfast, Bernie would be sitting at the typewriter and I'd be writing at the electric piano. When the band came down, they'd pick up their instruments. We did three or four tracks a day.

"This was only the third record with the band. We found our direction and were at our most confident. All my original influences are on it. It was an outpouring of everything that was inside me at that time. We were on a roll and we had adrenaline on our side. It was the beginning of our ascent to the top. It was magic."

Goodbye will be reissued on CD, vinyl, limited-edition yellow vinyl and in a lavish box set that also includes the Live at Hammersmith 1973 CD, a DVD of Bryan Forbes' 1973 film Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye to Norma Jean and Other Things and a hardbound book.

The two-CD deluxe edition ($33) and box set ($98) also feature a set of nine new Goodbye covers produced by Peter Asher and sung by Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sandé, Fall Out Boy, Hunter Hayes, Imelda May, John Grant, Miguel featuring Wale, the Band Perry and Zac Brown Band.

John is flattered by the interpretations. His original Goodbye also moved him when he heard it for the first time in years three months ago.

"I was so impressed by the quality of the singing, the instrumentation, the sound of everything," he says. "I'm not one for looking back, but it made me realize how fortunate I was to have a wonderful band and writing partner and producer like Gus Dudgeon. It did make me very teary but in a beautiful, happy way."

Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" will be reissued in various formats March 25.(Photo: Universal)

His recollections of five Goodbye tracks:

?Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding. The 11-minute prog-rock opener, which got wide radio play despite its length, links two songs. "We thought it would be great to have an overture before Funeral. Our engineer David Hentschel used an ARP (synthesizer), which looks like the telephone exchange Lily Tomlin used in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Switched-On Bach was played on one. You play one note at a time. David came up with that beautiful music that opens the door to the album.

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting. The first single, a scrappy rocker, was later covered by Queen and The Who. "I tried singing and playing piano when we were recording. In the end, I did the vocal lying on the floor and put the piano on afterward, which is extremely rare. That's the only way I could get the performance I wanted."

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The ballad and second single inspired the cover art of John in glittery platform boots, a satin bomber jacket and his signature spectacles. He's depicted stepping from a generic street into an Oz-like fantasy. "It seemed like a great title for the album," John says. "It was like saying goodbye to a loss of innocence. And it's been the standout album sleeve of my career."

Candle in the Wind. John felt certain this poignant ode to Marilyn Monroe would be a surefire smash. And it was, years later. "Candle has an odd history," he says. "It wasn't a hit in America until we did a live album in Australia" in 1987, when it reached No. 6. The retooled 1997 version for Princess Diana's funeral became the biggest pop single in history, selling 33 million copies.

Bennie and the Jets. When label executives proposed releasing Bennie, John balked and fought for Candle instead. "I had a tough time seeing Bennie as a single. It's not your usual pop song. They changed my mind by telling me it was a No. 1 black record in Detroit. Being a white boy in England, I was very excited. It gave me my first R&B No. 1." The song also landed John a spot on Soul Train.

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Elton John’s critically acclaimed album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the Rocket Man is coming to cinemas for an epic two-night concert event! Captured for the big screen from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano features larger-than-life performances of his greatest hits PLUS a special behind-the-scenes look at the making of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Get your tickets now at: http://bit.ly/OUGOTy

To mark the upcoming reissue of Elton John'sGoodbye Yellow Brick Road, the legendary singer/songwriter is delivering a valentine to fans: a previously unreleased video for Harmony, originally planned as the fourth single from the lauded 1973 album. The video will be available on Vevo starting Friday.

The Harmony video was compiled by Tam Johnstone, the son of Davey Johnstone, the longtime guitarist for John and a player on the Goodbye album. The 1973-74 tour footage used in the video was recently discovered in the attics of John's former tour managers Marvin Tabolsky and John Babcock. The clip also captures an encounter between John and Stevie Wonder.

The remastered Goodbye Yellow Brick Road will be reissued March 25 on CD, vinyl, limited-edition yellow vinyl and in a box set with a recording of Live at Hammersmith1973 on CD, a DVD of Bryan Forbes' 1973 film Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye to Norma Jean and Other Things and a 100-page illustrated hardbound book of rare photos, memorabilia and interviews with John and Taupin.

The twin-CD deluxe edition and box will include newly recorded covers of Goodbye tunes. They are:

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the seminal, 1973 breakthrough album, has been remastered and will be issued on CD, vinyl, limited-edition yellow vinyl, and in a box set featuring recordings of “Live at Hammersmith 1973”on CD, a DVD of Bryan Forbes’ 1973 film Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye to Norma Jean and Other Things, along with a 100-page illustrated hardback book packed with rare photos, memorabilia and a new essay containing interviews with Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Also included in the Deluxe Edition and box set versions is a suite of nine, new cover versions of classic songs from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road performed by Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sandé, Fall Out Boy, Hunter Hayes, Imelda May, John Grant, Miguel featuring Wale, The Band Perry, and Zac Brown Band.

This was the album that created a true superstar. Although he was already known in 1973 due to the growing success of his previous albums—including Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player, Elton John and Honky Chateau—it was the release of this double album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, that made Elton John a household name. It went on to sell 31-million copies. Goodbye... perfectly marries the various elements of Elton’s craft: classic songwriting, glam stomp, R&B, gospel, jaw-dropping performances, soul and a large helping of brilliant showmanship.

The album spent eight weeks at No.1 and went platinum seven times over in the U.S. It also contains Elton and co-writer Bernie Taupin’s most successful song, “Candle in the Wind;” a No.1 hit three times, in three different versions, in three successive decades, ultimately becoming the biggest-selling single of all time. It also features dynamite standards such as “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” and “Bennie and the Jets,” the latter being the song that led to Elton becoming the first white performer to appear on the influential American R&B TV show Soul Train. The album is also ranked No. 91 in Rolling Stone magazine’s “Top 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time” chart. In a career filled with highlights that other artists can only dream of, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road stands as a towering achievement, a defining moment in the most exciting era in rock history.

Often referred to as the pinnacle of Elton and co-writer Bernie Taupin’s creative powers and commercial success, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the eighth studio album the pair had released in a three-year period. But the recording of the album wasn't the smoothest of experiences. After initial attempts at recording in Kingston, Jamaica, were derailed by the double whammy of industrial action at the studio and further disruption was caused by a world boxing title fight in the town, Elton and the band returned to the familiar settings of Chateau d’Herouville. The album was completed in a staggering seventeen days (including mixing!) and the result is a body of work of huge ambition—kicking off with the grandiose, epic prog rock sound of “Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding,” and effortlessly segueing between pop, hard rock, soul, and stunning heart-wrenching ballads.

The album artwork was also a giant leap forward creatively for Elton. Whereas earlier album artwork either didn’t feature Elton at all, or showed him as an earnest early 70’s songwriter, here he can been seen resplendent in sparkling platform boots, a satin bomber jacket and, of course, his soon-to-be trademark flamboyant eyewear. The sight of him stepping from an unglamorous normal street into a magical fantasy world is not only a metaphor for the transition he was going through as an artist but is one of the most defining images of early 1970’s rock music.

The lasting legacy of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road can still be seen with a wealth of emerging new talent quick to praise the influence it had on their own careers. Artists ranging from BRIT winner Ed Sheeran (Candle in the Wind), R&B sensation Miguel (Bennie and the Jets), rock band Fall Out Boy (Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting), add their own interpretations to the classic originals on a sensational bonus disc. Recorded with producer Peter Asher at the helm, Elton and Bernie’s influence on modern day Americana, R&B and soul, and rock singers continues to shine through.

For two nights only in the US on March 18and March 26, 2014, CinemaLive in association with Rocket Music Entertainment Group, Yamaha Entertainment Group of America and Universal Music Group will release one of the world's most sensational concerts from the legendary singer, songwriter and performer, Elton John. The concert will be shown in over 200 cinemas across the UK and Ireland, forming a total of 1,200 cinemas worldwide in over 40 countries including the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and Australia.

‘The Million Dollar Piano’ is being performed to standing ovations during Elton’s current residency at The Colosseum, Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas and includes all of Elton’s greatest hits from throughout his career including ‘Rocket Man,’ ‘Tiny Dancer,’ ‘Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting,’ ‘I’m Still Standing,’ ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,’ ‘Crocodile Rock’ and ‘Your Song.’

At the centerpiece of the performance is the show’s namesake piano, an engineering marvel featuring more than 68 LED video screens created by Yamaha. Nearly four years in the making, the state-of-the-art piano is the perfect accompaniment to Elton’s greatest hits displaying fantastical imagery to complement the entertainer’s fan favorites. Creating a whimsical, one-of-a-kind entertainment experience, the piano weighs in at nearly 3,200 pounds.

Elton said, “I’ve had the best time [in Las Vegas] because I always thought of it as a challenge and wanted to put on the best show. I don’t think there could be a better looking show than this in Vegas or in any venue anywhere.”

Visit www.CinemaLive.com for a full list of cinemas where the event will take place on March 18and March 26, 2014, for two nights only in the US.

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TracksDisc 11. Your Song2. Madman Across The Water3. Sixty Years On4. Hercules5. Levon6. Take Me To The Pilot7. High Flying Bird8. Holiday Inn9. Burn Down The Mission10. Better Off Dead11. Someone Saved My Life Tonight12. Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)13. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word14. I'm Still Standing15. Bennie And The Jets16. Song For Guy17. This Train Don't Stop There Anymore18. Tinderbox19. The BridgeDisc 21. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters2. Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way (NYC)3. Honky Cat4. Rocket Man5. We All Fall In Love Sometimes/ Curtains6. The Bridge7. Roy Rogers8. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters9. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word10. Bennie And The Jets11. All The Girls Love Alice12. Tiny Dancer13. Something About The Way You Look Tonight14. Philadelphia Freedom15. Sad Songs (Say So Much)16. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me17. I'm Still Standing18. The Bitch Is Back19. Crocodile Rock20. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)21. Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding22. Your Song]]>http://www.universalmusicenterprises.com/redirect/product?pid=13913&aid=669&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=Music&utm_content=pid_13913
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Tracks1. Postcards From Richard Nixon2. Just Like Noah's Ark3. Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way (NYC)4. Tinderbox5. And The House Fell Down6. Blues Never Fade Away7. The Bridge8. I Must Have Lost It On The Wind9. Old 6710. The Captain and The Kid]]>http://www.universalmusicenterprises.com/redirect/product?pid=14005&aid=669&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=Music&utm_content=pid_14005
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Elton John’s monumental career as an International singer/songwriter and performer spanning more than three decades continued in 2004 with the release of his latest album, Peachtree Road.

Upon its initial release, the first single “Answer In The Sky” was #1 most added at AC radio and the album debuted its first week with sold over 71,000 to debut at #17 on the Billboard Top 200.

Now, in time for his 60th Birthday celebrations, his latest has been given the UMe “Deluxe Edition” treatment, presenting an expanded version with bonus material

• The Original 2004 Album Plus Three Bonus Tracks From The Hit British Play “Billy Elliot” Recorded In 2005.

• Plus An Exclusive Bonus DVD Of Live Performance From Atlanta, 2004

TracksDisc 11. Weight Of The World2. Porch Swing In Tupelo3. Answer In The Sky4. Turn The Lights Out When You Leave5. My Elusive Drug6. They Call Her The Cat7. Freaks In Love8. All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful)9. I Stop And I Breathe10. Too Many Tears11. It's Getting Dark In Here12. I Can't Keep This From You13. The Letter14. Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher15. ElectricityDisc 21. Weight Of The World2. Porch Swing In Tupelo3. Answer In The Sky4. Turn The Lights Out When You Leave5. My Elusive Drug6. They Call Her The Cat7. Freaks In Love8. All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful)9. I Can't Keep This From You

Introducing a series of specially selected original albums presented in a book-style long box.

Each box set features 3 albums by some of the greatest artists in the UMG catalog: Bryan Adams; Aerosmith; The Allman Brothers Band; Eric Clapton; Marvin Gaye; Toby Keith; B.B. King; KISS; Lynyrd Skynyrd; John Mellencamp; Rod Stewart; George Strait; Styx; and Tears For Fears.

Selected albums symbolize a classic period for the artist or illustrate the artist in a significant fashion, for example the B.B. King CDs are three historic live albums from the legendary bluesman,while Lynyrd Skynyrd is represented by their first three landmark albums.

The CD booklets from the original releases are included, making the Chronicles a must-buy at a great price.

TracksDisc 11. Your Song2. I Need You To Turn To3. Take Me To The Pilot4. No Shoe Strings On Louise5. First Episode At Hienton6. Sixty Years On7. Border Song8. The Greatest Discovery9. The Cage10. The King Must Die11. Bad Side Of The Moon12. Grey Seal13. Rock And Roll MadonnaDisc 21. Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun2. Come Down In Time3. Country Comfort4. Son Of Your Father5. My Father's Gun6. Where To Now St. Peter?7. Love Song8. Amoreena9. Talking Old Soldiers10. Burn Down The Mission11. Into The Old Man's Shoes12. Madman Across The WaterDisc 31. Tiny Dancer2. Levon3. Razor Face4. Madman Across The Water5. Indian Sunset6. Holiday Inn7. Rotten Peaches8. All The Nasties9. Goodbye

The first album to enter the Billboard Album Chart at #1, and keep that position for seven weeks, now certified triple platinum, and producing one of Elton John’s greatest hits, “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy is also a unique album in the legendary career of Elton John.

Written and sequenced chronologically, it tells the saga of Elton and long-time lyricist/partner Bernie Taupin and their career up to its release in June of 1975 — Elton, of course, being “The Captain.”

Within three weeks of the album’s debut, on June 21, Elton John played the Midsummer Music Festival at Wembley Stadium in London, where, for the first and only time (until now), he played the entire album from beginning to end in front of a spillover crowd of over 100,000 enthralled fans, introducing each song with insights into the lyrics.

Now, 30 years later, this remarkable concert has been remixed (including bonus performances of “Pinball Wizard” and “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting”) and is the second CD on this 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Captain Fantastic. The entire original album has been remastered by Elton’s engineer and the three bonus tracks from the most recent CD reissue have been added — “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds,” “One Day At A Time,” and “Philadelphia Freedom.” Plus, for this Deluxe Edition, “House Of Cards,” the b-side for “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” is added.

• The first #1 album upon release now celebrated with a 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.• Second CD presents the previously unreleased 1975 Concert, featuring the only performance to dateof the entire Captain Fantastic album, including introductions by Elton explaining album and song lyrics.• Packaging includes the entire original packaging from the first LP release for the first time since the LP era.• Booklet also includes an intro by Bernie Taupin and new liner notes by British journalist/author Paul Gambuccini.

Tracks1. Weight Of The World2. Porch Swing In Tupelo3. Answer In The Sky4. Turn The Lights Out When You Leave5. My Elusive Drug6. They Call Her The Cat7. Freaks In Love8. All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful)9. I Stop And I Breathe10. Too Many Tears11. It's Getting Dark In Here12. I Can't Keep This From You

Tracks1. Weight Of The World2. Porch Swing In Tupelo3. Answer In The Sky4. Turn The Lights Out When You Leave5. My Elusive Drug6. They Call Her The Cat7. Freaks In Love8. All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful)9. I Stop And I Breathe10. Too Many Tears11. It's Getting Dark In Here12. I Can't Keep This From You

Tracks1. Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun2. Come Down In Time3. Country Comfort4. Son Of Your Father5. My Father's Gun6. Where To Now St. Peter?7. Love Song8. Amoreena9. Talking Old Soldiers10. Burn Down The Mission11. Into The Old Man's Shoes12. Madman Across The Water

Tracks1. Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy2. Tower Of Babel3. Bitter Fingers4. Tell Me When The Whistle Blows5. Someone Saved My Life Tonight6. (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket7. Better Off Dead8. Writing9. We All Fall In Love Sometimes10. Curtains11. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds12. One Day At A Time13. Philadelphia Freedom

Tracks1. Your Song2. I Need You To Turn To3. Take Me To The Pilot4. No Shoe Strings On Louise5. First Episode At Hienton6. Sixty Years On7. Border Song8. The Greatest Discovery9. The Cage10. The King Must Die11. Bad Side Of The Moon12. Grey Seal13. Rock And Roll Madonna

Tracks1. The Emperor's New Clothes2. Dark Diamond3. Look Ma, No Hands4. American Triangle5. Original Sin6. Birds7. I Want Love8. The Wasteland9. Ballad Of The Boy In The Red Shoes10. Love Her Like Me11. Mansfield12. This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

Tracks1. Town Of Plenty2. A Word In Spanish3. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters (Part 2)4. I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That5. Japanese Hands6. Goodbye Marlon Brando7. The Camera Never Lies8. Heavy Traffic9. Poor Cow10. Since God Invented Girls11. Rope Around A Fool12. I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That13. I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That14. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters (Part 2)

Tracks1. Durban Deep2. Healing Hands3. Whispers4. Club At The End Of The Street5. Sleeping With The Past6. Stone's Throw From Hurtin'7. Sacrifice8. I Never Knew Her Name9. Amazes Me10. Blue Avenue11. Dancing In The End Zone12. Love Is A Cannibal

Tracks1. Can You Feel The Love Tonight2. The One3. Sacrifice4. Daniel5. Someone Saved My Life Tonight6. Your Song7. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me8. Believe9. Blue Eyes10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word11. Blessed12. Candle In The Wind13. You Can Make History (Young Again)14. No Valentines15. Circle Of Life

Tracks1. Sixty Years On2. I Need You To Turn To3. The Greatest Discovery4. Tonight5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word6. The King Must Die7. Take Me To The Pilot8. Tiny Dancer9. Have Mercy On The Criminal10. Madman Across The Water11. Candle In The Wind12. Burn Down The Mission13. Your Song14. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

Tracks1. Cold As Christmas (In The Middle Of The Year)2. I'm Still Standing3. Too Low For Zero4. Religion5. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues6. Crystal7. Kiss The Bride8. Whipping Boy9. Saint10. One More Arrow11. Earn While You Learn12. Dreamboat13. The Retreat

Tracks1. Long Way From Happiness2. Live Like Horses3. The End Will Come4. If The River Can Bend5. Love's Got A Lot To Answer For6. Something About The Way You Look Tonight7. The Big Picture8. Recover Your Soul9. January10. I Can't Steer My Heart Clear Of You11. Wicked Dreams

Tracks1. Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy2. Tower Of Babel3. Bitter Fingers4. Tell Me When The Whistle Blows5. Someone Saved My Life Tonight6. (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket7. Better Off Dead8. Writing9. We All Fall In Love Sometimes10. Curtains11. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds12. One Day At A Time13. Philadelphia Freedom